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The State of ECM Records 2009: Steve Kuhn, Jan Garbarek and Thomas Zehetmair
by C. Michael Bailey
Its 40th anniversary year, 2009, has been a good one for Manfred Eicher's Edition of Contemporary Music Company. ECM was selected the Best Classical Label by Gramophone magazine. If that wasn't enough, ECM was selected Jazz Label of the Year and Manfred Eicher, Producer of the Year by Downbeat magazine. No record label since the Blue ...
Jacksonville: Big City, Big Band, Big Plans
by Jack Bowers
Almost everyone who's even mildly interested knows that the big band scene in the US isn't what it used to be. On the other hand, the big bands aren't yet dead, as some alarmists have claimed, or even on life support. Thanks in part to college and armed services programs, there are perhaps as many or ...
Molde Jazz: Day 6, July 18, 2009
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 Break of Day in Molde / Crimetime Orchestra / Jaga Jazzist / Arve Henriksen Closing ConcertMolde Jazz Molde, Norway July 18, 2009 It's almost impossible to believe, that after the late nights ...
Take Five With Domina Catrina
by AAJ Staff
Instrument(s):Left-handed acoustic guitar, high-strung acoustic guitar, virtual instruments (basses, percussions, ethnic instruments, etc) triggered from M-Audio oxygen-8 keyboard into MacBook using Apple loops (usually modified in some way), Indonesian flute (suling), soprano recorder, alto recorder.Teachers and/or influences? I spent six or seven months from September '86 studying guitar at the Musicians' Institute. ...
Charlie Mariano: Helen 12 Trees
by John Kelman
Of labels awaiting first-time release on CD, Germany's MPS is the undisputed holy grail. With plans to release fifteen of its 400+ titles in carefully remastered and beautifully designed mini-LP sleeve packages each year, Promising Music is righting a wrong in the best possible way. Always eclectic, MPS ran the gamut from free jazz to fusion ...
Stages Of A Long Journey
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Silent Feet: Syndrome; Yesterdays; Seven Movements; Birthday Suite: The Colours of Chloë;
Piano Transition; Maurizius; Percussion Transition; Yellow Fields; Hang Around; The Last Stage
of a Long Journey; Air.
Bassist/Composer Eberhard Weber Interviewed at AAJ
It's impossible to tell the story of European jazz without mentioning bassist/composer Eberhard Weber. One of the true virtuosos of the bass, the German-born Weber has an immediately recognizable, singing tone--even when he's not performing on his trademark, self-designed electrobass. Like his American counterpart Jaco Pastorius, Weber wasn't shy about making his instrument heard--his round, supple ...
Eberhard Weber: Please Don't Play Jazz
by Paul Olson
It's impossible to tell the story of European jazz without mentioning bassist/composer Eberhard Weber. One of the true virtuosos of the bass, the German-born Weber has an immediately recognizable, singing tone—even when he's not performing on his trademark, self-designed electrobass. Like his American counterpart Jaco Pastorius, Weber wasn't shy about making his instrument heard—his round, supple ...
Eberhard Weber: Stages of A Long Journey
by Michael P. Gladstone
Bassist Eberhard Weber has had a long recording career with ECM Records, dating back to 1970. His first album as a leader, The Colours of Chloe (ECM, 1974), helped to define the sound and essence of the ECM persona. His series of absorbing and innovative albums has continued through to Endless Days (ECM, 2001). ...
Eberhard Weber: Surveying A Musical Life
by Jason Crane
Jason Crane interviews bassist Eberhard Weber. Weber's name is synonymous with the “ECM sound, because he's been the bassist of choice on classic ECM recordings dating back to the label's founding three decades ago. Since the early 1980s, Weber has played in saxophonist Jan Garbarek's band. To celebrate his 65th birthday, the city of ...
